Contemptuous meaning

Adjective: contemptuous

Pronunciation: (kun’tem(p)-choo-us)

Contemptuous meaning: Expressing extreme contempt.

Synonyms: disdainful, scornful, insulting

Quotations: Sydney J. Harris – Patriotism is proud of a country’s virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country’s virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, the greatest, but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

Penny Junor – The queen is contemptuous of monarchies that do pick and choose and do retire. One inherits after the other die, that’s it.

André Maurois – People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

Todd Akin – The same can be said of partial birth abortion, which is a horribly violent procedure which kills a baby moments before birth. This decision is contemptuous to Congress, which overwhelmingly passed the ban.

John Batiste – My own decision to speak out goes back to watching firsthand the arrogant and contemptuous attitude of Rumsfeld as he ignored the advice of military experts during preparations for war, and then living with the impact of those strategic blunders as a division commander in Iraq.

Leo Tolstoy – Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuous of each other to such a degree that they cannot even treat each other seriously and cannot even insult each one another.

Sample sentences:

1. The companies’ flagrant and contemptuous disregard of a binding consent decree is wholly unacceptable.
2. It’s not going to be contemptuous of wealth and ambition.
3. I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.
4. Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.
5. The whole tone of church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
6. She’d always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.
7. The way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
8. Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.
9. I’m crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.
10. The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who’s ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see.